Behind Makenzie Stiles’ second consecutive perfect game, Deposit made it five successive Section 4 Class D softball championships by throwing a 22-0 jolt Marathon’s way Saturday at the BAGSAI Complex.

Stiles struck out the first seven and last five she faced on the way to 16 overall. Those five balls that required defensive attention were tended to efficiently and uneventfully.

Oh, and there was that interminable 19-run last of the fifth inning, in which the Lady Jacks sent 24 to the plate and the ensuing merry-go-round of baserunners made for one mess of a scorebook page.

“Can’t really say much other than, wow, we put the ball in play today,” said Deposit coach Dan Briggs. “We kept finding the holes and finding the big patches of green out there and we capitalized on a few of their mistakes. Makenzie, again, in the circle was dominant.

“Nothing really new for us. We’ve been hitting the ball, been playing some really good offense the last half of the season and Makenzie’s been on-point.

“22-0, that’s a little bit more than I thought we were going to score but we hit the ball and played very well today.”

The Lady Jacks will open state playoffs 5:30 p.m. Friday at Union-Endicott against an opponent from Section 9.

Stiles’ ran her count of perfect games to 13 since donning a varsity uniform, and if anyone has gone back-to-back to complete Section 4 tournament play it is unknown on this end.

Two days before in her team’s home-field finale, she struck out 20 of 21 — “nicked” only by an infield grounder — in a 15-0 semifinal dispatch of Gilboa. For the most recent slice of perfection, she credited an effective curveball and a riser that Olympians batters simply could not lay off.

“I can’t thank my team enough, they’ve really helped me through it,” she said. “Obviously, I didn’t strike everyone out and I needed my team to back me— and the hitting, too, that was phenomenal.”

Said catcher Bryn Martin, with whom Stiles shared a joyous embrace near the plate after the final: “It makes catching easy. When she throws where she has to throw then it makes my job a lot easier.”

It was Martin who started that whole fifth-inning deal by launching a leadoff home run a shade left of dead-center to make it a 4-0 advantage. Sixteen or so hits and a good bit of time later, the game’s final run had been scored.

“A lot of them were with two outs, too, so we were pretty hyped about that,” Stiles said.

And from Briggs: “I didn’t realize it was that much. That was one of those innings where anything that we put in play was finding green. They didn’t make that many mistakes out there, it was just that we kept finding the holes. Our bloops were falling in, our line drives were finding the gaps. That’s just the way the ball rolls sometimes.”

Martin was merely warming up in the fifth with that homer. Before inning’s conclusion she tacked on a two-run triple over the center fielder’s glove and a bad-hop base hit past the third baseman that scored another.

Not a bad inning to round out a 5-for-5 outing.

Bryn Martin drove in the winning run in the first, and sister Kyra hit a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0. Yet another Martin sister, leadoff batter Mikayla, singled home a run in the fourth for a three-run difference before matters quickly got out of hand.

“This group of seniors we have, that’s what makes it special,” Briggs said of five consecutive years of sectional supremacy. “The three seniors, they’ve been on since eighth grade and they haven’t lost a sectional game.”